Unfinished Quotes

181 quotes by 156 authors

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished… — Anita Brookner
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. — Hillary Clinton
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the… — George MacDonald
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of… — Ronald Takaki
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question. — Mary McCarthy
Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired openly, they block… — Robert Kavanaugh
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result. — Henry Cloud
I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents… — Carl Jung
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. — Christina Rossetti
Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood...… — Charles Dickens
At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.' — Sophia Loren
It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished. — Kevin Spacey
My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in this life, your… — Melissa Gilbert
As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United… — Chelsea Manning
Michael Ondaatjeâ€™s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All… — Amitava Kumar
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats
I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come… — Carl Sandburg
I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves… — Caio Fonseca
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real… — Aphra Behn
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in… — Xavier Becerra

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